Jack Black Returning To TV For HBO’s STRANGELOVEish Black Comedy Series THE BRINK!!

Jack Black -- a frequent TV guest star in the early 1990s with credits that include “The Fall Guy,” “Life Goes On,” “Northern Exposure,” “All-American Girl,” “The X-Files,” “Touched By An Angel,” “Picket Fences” and “Mr. Show” – is headed back to series television.

Black and longtime mentor Tim Robbins will co-star in “The Brink,” just-greenlit HBO comedy about low-ranking foreign service officer Alex Coppins (Black), who tries to prevent the planet from entering a third world war.

Robbins will play Coppins’ boss, U.S. secretary of state Walter Hollander. Robbins recently starred in the comic IFC miniseries “The Spoils of Babylon.”